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Shyleen Lao

Shyleen Lao

5 appearances · Modern Age · 2002–2018
Who is Shyleen Lao?

Shyleen Lao is a young DC character introduced through the relaunched Doom Patrol series, connected to that team's trademark oddity. Her appearances alongside heroes like The Flash and Green Lantern suggest metahuman ties, though her specific powers remain loosely defined in continuity.

Shyleen Lao stepped onto the DC stage in 2002, born from the creative partnership of John Arcudi and Tan Eng Huat in Doom Patrol #3 — a Modern Age entry into one of comics' most delightfully strange corners of the DC Universe. Her catalog trail winds through some genuinely prestigious company, brushing up against the likes of The Flash, Green Lantern, and Fever across titles like JLA/JSA: Virtue and Vice and JSA by Geoff Johns, suggesting a character whose reach extended well beyond her origins. She may be a rarer find with only a handful of logged appearances, but that scarcity makes tracking her down across sixteen years of DC history all the more rewarding for the dedicated collector.

★ First appearance
Doom Patrol #3
Feb 2002

Top series

Covers through the years — 2002–2018

Doom Patrol #3 2002
Doom Patrol #3
JSA Omnibus #1 2014
JSA Omnibus #1
JSA by Geoff Johns #2 2018
JSA by Geoff Johns #2

Appearances

Doom Patrol (2001)
#3
JLA / JSA: Virtue and Vice (2002)
JSA Omnibus (2014)
#1
JSA by Geoff Johns (2018)
#2